Example sentences of "they [be] responding to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reality is that the popular committees are not being funded by anyone … rather they are responding to the lack of funding of the community services [ i.e. by the authorities ] by trying to organise their own . |
| 2 | It is , on the whole , more likely that they are responding to the cumulative temperature building up slowly until a threshold has been passed , and they are away . |
| 3 | The police can claim they are responding to the needs of a multicultural society , and the religious leaders become the channel of communication between their community and the state . |
| 4 | Both companies deny , however , that they are responding to criticism . |
| 5 | Stan , have you any observations to make on , on the way that the industry — I 'm thinking now of hotels particularly — how they 're responding to what is , after all , seems to be a changing market . |
| 6 | They were responding to a tip-off after police released a video of two men filmed shortly before the blast at the Knightsbridge store on January 28 in which three people were injured . |
| 7 | The evening before , when the boy was buying a betel-leaf from a shop , the police had hauled him up as a vagabond ; they were responding to the jail authorities ' appeal to book more helpers … . |
| 8 | No , they were Zionists , they were believers , they were responding to the call or answering a challenge . |
| 9 | On 24 December the Soviet authorities , fearing a further change of government and perhaps of political orientation , began to airlift troops into Kabul ; it was claimed that they were responding to an appeal from the Afghan government to suppress a counter-revolution which was being fomented from outside the country , and that their action was justified by the Soviet-Afghan friendship treaty . |
| 10 | He ended his talk by praising his staff for the way in which they were responding to students with special needs , particularly those with physical or sensory disabilities , who were increasingly seeking to pursue studies at the Darlington college . |